iENGAGE Workshop for Project Teams
Your project managers know how to build a plan. Ask them how to lead the human system that plan depends on, and most will tell you they learned it the hard way — or haven't yet.
Projects rarely fail because someone couldn't sequence the work. They fail because a concern wasn't raised, a decision wasn't made, a team ran out of energy in the hard middle, or two people agreed in a meeting and meant different things. None of that shows up on a dashboard until it is expensive.
The iENGAGE workshop gives project leaders a system for the half of the job nobody trained them for.
You cannot control people. You can lead the conditions in which they succeed.
it actually gets delivered. iENGAGE is Norma Lynch's original leadership framework for leading those conditions intentionally, developed from years of training and coaching project teams through exactly the moments where plans meet people.
What makes this Different
It is a system, not a soft-skills session. Participants leave with a model they can use on Monday, a diagnostic they can run on their own project, and a 90-day plan for making it stick. No role-play.
Everyone leaves with the cube. iENGAGE is built around a physical object that sits on a desk — six faces, five leadership conditions, one sensing system. It is a prompt, not a poster. It is the reason people still use this three months later.
It is anchored to project delivery. Not general leadership theory. Every example, signal and intervention is drawn from real project situations — steering committees, vendor delays, scope change, the stakeholder who has gone quiet.
It is built on evidence. The system draws on research in psychological safety, motivation and team performance, and aligns with the direction of the profession — including PMI's emphasis on project professionals owning success, not just managing delivery.
What participants leave with
- The iENGAGE cube and a working knowledge of all six faces
- The four sensing questions for reading a project's human system early
- The iENGAGE Diagnostic, run on a live project, with the gap between their intention and their team's experience made visible
- A 90-day plan with one or two committed behaviours, not twenty
- A shared language their team and sponsor can actually use
Keynote or Conference
The argument, the cube, and the four sensing questions — why projects send human signals long before they send metrics, and what leaders can do about it on Monday. Built for conference programmes, chapter events and internal leadership days. Cubes for attendees on request.
Two-day workshop
The full system, worked on participants' own live projects. Day one covers the cube, the five conditions and the sensing system, and ends with each person running the iENGAGE Diagnostic on a project they are leading. Day two interprets the results, works through the patterns that matter, adds the governance and sponsor dimension, and closes with each participant committing to a 90-day plan and one or two visible changes.
Everyone leaves with a cube, a completed diagnostic and a plan. Delivered in-house for groups.
Who it's for
- Project, programme and portfolio managers
- Technical leads moving into delivery leadership
- PMO teams building capability rather than compliance
- Sponsors and senior leaders who shape the conditions around projects, often without realising it
About your facilitator
Norma Lynch, PMP, is the founder of NLC Project Power, a PMI Authorised Training Partner Instructor and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Project Management. She has trained and coached project managers globally for more than a decade, served on the board of the PMI Ireland Chapter, and is the author of Lead the Conditions: The iENGAGE System for the Human Side of Project Success.
iENGAGE came out of what she kept hearing in those rooms — not that people lacked technique, but that nobody had given them a system for the human side.
NLC Project Power | Midleton, Cork, Ireland | norma@nl-c.ie | 0879973336 |www.nl-c.ie